[conspire] corrected to HP LaserJet4M Plus Re: HP LaserJet4 - CUPS lists printer twice

[Tony Godshall]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Rick Moen<rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Tony Godshall (tony at of.net):
>
>> Yes exactly, JetAdmin is not needed.  Was I arguing that it was?
>
> No, you weren't.  Sorry about that.  1.  Busy day, and I didn't
> give your post as attentive a read as I should.  E.g., I didn't
> fully parse that bit about recent HP printers having ability to
> configure via HTTP.  Which is cool.  Anyway:  2. I was just really
> trying to stress, for _other_ people's benefit, that setting up a
> JetDirect-equipped printer for network functionality is simple.
>
> Why?  Because, as I believe we all saw upthread, there seems to be a
> persistent misconception that you should hang such printers off a
> parallel or USB port, because configuring them as network printers must
> be impossibly complex -- or something like that.  (Darlene apparently
> had been advised to hang her network-capable off her machine and ignore
> the JetDirect interface for the really rather bad reason of her not
> having a DHCP server.)
>
> So, I just wanted to stress that it's not actually difficult, and well
> worth trying.


Oh, good grief.

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.  Set a network printer up as a
network printer and you'll avoid much complexity.